Lego 2007 Dwarf Faction Retrospective: Tavern Talk 

"And I gotta tell you, it was perfect. Perfect. Everything. Down to the last minute details"

Fantasy era Castle is by far one of my favourite Lego themes, would love to see it return someday

that battle dwarf is 100% a warhammer fantasy reference, its literally a slayer

Fantasy era was so fun! Still wish the Elflands had made more of an appearance than just a magazine mention :)

I Like To Imagine That The Dwarfs Have A Symbiotic Relationship With The Crown Knights. They Supply Them With Arms, Armor And Siege. In Return, The Crowns Protect Them From Outside Forces. This Would Also Gives A Reason Why The Two Factions Have The Same Color Scheme And Shield Patterns. While It's Not Said In The Set, I Think The Blacksmith In 10176 Is A Dwarf, Given His Short Legs And Profession. There's Also Some Rock Terrain and A Cart In The Advent Calendar.

I got the Dwarves' Mine set the first day I saw it on the shelf at Target. I think it was originally a Target exclusive. My box said "Special Edition", but I don't think it was any different than the ones that eventually showed up at TRU or elsewhere. That was such a great set! Lots of cool play / display features, all the dwarves, those cool new orc "trolls", and even that giant ogre "troll". I remember thinking it was really inexpensive at the time. I just went back and checked to be sure, and it looks like it was only $59.99! [EDIT: just checked further, and tho Brickset SAYS $59.99, other posters are reporting it was $49.99 at Target, which is what I remember... WHAT A BARGAIN!] It had so many great parts! Those big tower shields, the clip-on axe heads (which I think were introduced with Vikings a couple years earlier, but I'd only just gotten in the King's Castle Siege a couple months earlier), even the turkey leg for that ogre to chomp on (which had been around at least 10 years in Belville/Scala but I'd never gotten one). I still make those brick-built hammers in all kind of colors! They're one of my favorite minifig weapons. I even got all the parts in trans-clear to make one "magical crystalline", lol 🤓 Great vid, as always. Thanks!

The dwarf mine was an awesome set. Just a shame that they weren’t as flushed out with more sets of their own

Fantasy era castle is so underrated. I freakin love those dwarves thought they were so cute but also cool. Also Lego battles cutscenes were fun.

Fantasy castle is one of my favorite Lego themes (I loved the Lego Battles / Lego Universe / Clutch Powers era of original themes like Mars Mission too), perfect balance of new pieces without being overspecialized

The Battle Dwarf doesn't have two symbols, those are both a boar on him and his hammer, the hammer one is just a side profile view of it running

This is the video I've been waiting for, I need to mine

Awesome lore video, the set is great also The Crown Knights are probably my favorite faction, I hope you do a video about them soon

Amazing Analysis, I really enjoyed listening to this project.

Battle Dwarf also tells that there is a thing such as Fire-breathing Sea Dragon, and an animal like Razorback also exists

The dwarves are an amazing faction!

"Diggey diggy hole, digging a hole 🎶" Also, 00:01 Skellington! I love those guys!

I knew you’d nail this one, Brad. Love it!

My fav faction, the Fantasy Era!

"I am the slayer King!" - Ungrim Ironfist from warhammer, that mohawk dwarf really is a lego slayer dwarf. Have you seen them? If you can get the sets there is this Enlighten series of chinese lego that have more dwarfs in it. They are heavily inspired from Warcraft and are very beautiful addition to dwarfs overall.

"Me lucky socks!" - true Chads will know this quote.

Dwarves were GOATed. Thankfully I have all of the ones from the OG Fantasy Era castle line :D

Awesome job! I’m glad to finally see the mighty dwarves get their own Tavern Talk!

We need more dwarven sets! Great vid!

These are amazing sets, I'll look if I can pick some up.

love the lego battles reference!

2:58 3:21 7:07 All I ask is for consistency with the lore for plastic toys from nearly 20 years ago.

In my headcanon, dwarf copper is the same strength as human steel.

The mine is such a great little set.

Yes these guys were perfect. th beards the helmets the sets, to this day I regret I never got any of them back then, and I realy hope Lego doesent miss out on the chance to bring these molds back fo the DnD sets Khazukhan kazakit HA!

The red haired warrior and the flying contraption are probably inspired a bit by the Warhammer Fantasy dwarfs - slayers and gyrocopyers respectively. Never knew of the flying contraption! I wonder if someone has made it in real life...

I wish the Dwarf faction had a different color scheme on their shields than the Crown Knights. I understand they were allies, but they almost seem like the same faction as the Crown Knights with the same colors. They should have gotten their own color scheme.

i love those talk. but still small space viking people

The Battle Dwarf is definitely supposed to be a troll slayer from warhammer.

I wish that Mine set they created had some logic in it. Like mine the gold underground -> lift it up with the lift -> move them along the tube -> throw them to the cart. The set would need just a little modification to make it right. Now it's not very logical (2 ways to pour the gold into the carts, both end of the tube line is an end, with no starting point.)

6:14 is that a hobbit reference to Smaug?

So dwarfs, slayers and chaos dwarfs..what else.

so dwarves love shiny things... I guess rappers are dwarves

Dammit brad, you're making me want to collect Dwarves now. My wallet can't take that kind of abuse!

I wonder if the evil dwarf designed some of the equipment used by the trolls and skeletons

THE BATLORD WILL RETURN

I generally prefer the Fantasy Era dwarfs and trolls to their counterparts from the Lord of the Rings sets. The Castle ones have an element of cartoonishness that works better alongside other Lego characters.

I hope we get a second wave of Lord of the Rings, are they do another Fantasy run. Dungeons and Dragons is a good start.

Peak Lego

Not sure how to interpret "twice as wise [a mountain]". Have you ever asked something to a mountain? you are, for sure, still waiting the answer... so... is it a poetic way to say the king has the IQ of a stone?

SHORT!?!

Wait what about the skeletons

Video request: crown knights btw I love you videos with out you I might be dumb as a bag of hammers Lmo .

Can we all agree these were based on lord of the rings in a way 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

first!

second!

but lego had to gave it up , their pride and ego !! they trade it for the friends and woke propaganda